Coat o airms o Burkina Faso

The coat o airms o Burkina Faso contains a shield based on the naitional banner. Abuin the shield the name o the kintra is shawn, while belaw it is the naitional motto, Unité, Progrès, Justice (French for "Unity, Progress, Juistice"). The supporters are twa white stallions. This coat o airms is seemilar tae the auld Upper Volta coat o airms (see belaw), wi the Burkina Faso banner replacin the Upper Volta banner in the middle.

Historic coat o airms (1984-1987)

Coat o airms 1984-1997

Thomas Sankara's 1983-1987 Burkinabé revolution implementit a coat o airms featurin a crossed mattock an AK-47 (an allusion tae the Hammer an Sickle), wi the motto La Patrie ou la Mort, nous vaincrons (Faitherland or daith, we will win).

Coat o airms o Upper Volta

Coat of arms of Upper Volta

This somewhat resembles the current emblem, except that the enclosin shield haes a blue backgrund, the horse are white, the inescutcheon is based on the banner o Upper Volta wi the superimposed letters "RHV" (for République de Haute-Volta), an the motto wis Unité, Travail, Juistice ("Unity, Labour, Justice").